The use of Personal Budgets for employment support |
About the research
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The National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) is conducting some research into the use of Personal Budgets to support disabled people into paid work or to retain employment they already have.
A Personal Budget is money from adult social care that is allocated to individuals to pay for care or support to meet their assessed needs.
Although one of the outcomes that people can use Personal Budgets to achieve is support getting or retaining paid work, evidence suggests that Personal Budgets are NOT currently being significantly used in this way. This suggests that individuals may be missing out on support that they would like, and that employment support organisations may be missing out on a potential source of funding.
We want to hear from providers of employment support about the use of Personal Budgets in their organisation. We are interested in finding out whether Personal Budgets are being used, how they are being used, and if they are not being used what the reasons are. We would be grateful if you could help us by completing this survey which should take around 10-15 minutes. It will help you fill in the survey quickly if you have figures of the overall number of clients and service costs to hand before you start. The deadline for the survey is Tuesday 10th December.
Individual responses will be kept confidential within the NDTi and will not be shared with any other organisation or the funders of this work without your consent. Any comments referred to in the findings reports will be anonymised. Summarised findings will be shared publicly, including with our funding partners and all organisations who have returned this questionnaire.
If you have any questions about the research or the survey, please contact Naomi Harflett, Researcher at NDTi at: naomi.harflett@ndti.org.uk
This is the first stage of a research project jointly funded by Think Local Act Personal, Remploy, In Control, Wolverhampton City Council, Northamptonshire County Council and NDTi. NDTi is grateful for the support of the funders of the research and to the British Association for Supported Employment (BASE) for help distributing the survey.
If you are happy to help us with this research, please select next. Thank you very much for your help.
A Personal Budget is money from adult social care that is allocated to individuals to pay for care or support to meet their assessed needs.
Although one of the outcomes that people can use Personal Budgets to achieve is support getting or retaining paid work, evidence suggests that Personal Budgets are NOT currently being significantly used in this way. This suggests that individuals may be missing out on support that they would like, and that employment support organisations may be missing out on a potential source of funding.
We want to hear from providers of employment support about the use of Personal Budgets in their organisation. We are interested in finding out whether Personal Budgets are being used, how they are being used, and if they are not being used what the reasons are. We would be grateful if you could help us by completing this survey which should take around 10-15 minutes. It will help you fill in the survey quickly if you have figures of the overall number of clients and service costs to hand before you start. The deadline for the survey is Tuesday 10th December.
Individual responses will be kept confidential within the NDTi and will not be shared with any other organisation or the funders of this work without your consent. Any comments referred to in the findings reports will be anonymised. Summarised findings will be shared publicly, including with our funding partners and all organisations who have returned this questionnaire.
If you have any questions about the research or the survey, please contact Naomi Harflett, Researcher at NDTi at: naomi.harflett@ndti.org.uk
This is the first stage of a research project jointly funded by Think Local Act Personal, Remploy, In Control, Wolverhampton City Council, Northamptonshire County Council and NDTi. NDTi is grateful for the support of the funders of the research and to the British Association for Supported Employment (BASE) for help distributing the survey.
If you are happy to help us with this research, please select next. Thank you very much for your help.